Do you think Annandale will ever take off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Annandale has gone downhill fast, alongside neighboring Falls Church and Springfield. It’s experienced it’s own white flight, where hispanics and AAs from PG and DC moved down, effectively killing the white population, as evident by their schools. It’s going to continue going downhill, with Fairfax city, Burke and it’s surrounding areas following suit. I would only recommend NW fairfax towards the river to anyone moving to fairfax county, ie. Mclean, Great Falls.

Um, well, some of us can't afford $1M+ homes? Are you only friends with rich people? We have a $350K+ 40% downpayment to burn and still might be priced out of Burke at the way things are selling even at 6.5-7% rates, but sure we'll check Mclean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

DP. You could live in Annandale and be zoned to Annandale, Falls Church, Justice, or Woodson, depending on the address.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

Cite the source.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

Cite the source.

https://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:2:::NO:0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID,P0_EDSL:090,0 this is bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Annandale has gone downhill fast, alongside neighboring Falls Church and Springfield. It’s experienced it’s own white flight, where hispanics and AAs from PG and DC moved down, effectively killing the white population, as evident by their schools. It’s going to continue going downhill, with Fairfax city, Burke and it’s surrounding areas following suit. I would only recommend NW fairfax towards the river to anyone moving to fairfax county, ie. Mclean, Great Falls.

I thought Annandale was mostly Asian (specifically Korean)?

It used to be heavily, heavily Korean but then (I was told) many of them moved out to Centerville and a lot of hispanic immigrants were moving in. But then I heard a lot of the Koreans were moving back - still a ton of Korean businesses in Annandale but unclear whether the owners/employees live in the area or commute in.

Source: been getting my hair cut by the same Korean woman in Annandale for 20 years

Interesting. I live in Centreville and have always been under the impression that Annandale was the main K-Town in Nova, with Centreville having a smaller Korean community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

You took the stats from 2018-2019.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

you took the stats from 2018-2019

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

Cite the source.

https://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:2:::NO:0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID,P0_EDSL:090,0 this is bad.

Stop cherry picking data in a "poor" attempt to justify your racism. Here are the details for McLean HS for the same year you're using. Not significantly better than Justice to support the point you think you're trying to make.

Alcohol, Tobacco, And Other Drug Offenses 40
Disorderly Or Disruptive Behavior Offenses 16
Offenses Against Student 28 (based on the way your counting)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

you took the stats from 2018-2019

DP but they took 2018-2019 stats, added a couple of categories together and didn't share reports from the "good schools"

[Anonymous]

I am surprised how defensive people are about Annandale. The original question was - when was Annandale going to take off - this is a discussion of what dragging it down and which direction it's headed. The fact that Annandale is getting less desirable has to be caused by something - schools and gangs are just a couple of causes - FACT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The schools are the issue there.

Here we go again. The schools….blah, blah, blah. If you have firsthand experience please share. If not, please sit this out.

Signed a resident of Annandale whose kids attend the public schools, inside the beltway.

Don't get defensive, but the schools in Annandale suck.

Not my experience. It’s just the line everyone on this board seems to use. Who decides whether a school
is good or not, test score? Hmm, ok. No school is perfect and never will be.

when you have a school that’s averaging 34 drug offenses, 54 behavioral offenses, 38 physical altercations, and 7 weapons offenses, that’s no longer subjective. That’s objectively dangerous and unappealing.

which school are you referring to? Is this Annandale HS? If so, there are also two other high schools, Justice and Falls Church. and all this conversation is just about one high school. What about the elementary schools and middle schools? I just think it’s unbelievable that people continue to bash something that they have no personal experience with.

Falls Church HS: 75 drug offenses, 32 behavioral offenses, 35 offenses to students, 5 weapons offenses.
Justice HS: 31 drug offenses, 36 behavioral offenses, 29 offenses to students.

Jeez this just keeps getting better and better. Send your kids to private folks, this is scary.

you took the stats from 2018-2019

2019-2020 was half virtual. 2020-2021 was all virtual. What’s your point? It’s only gotten worse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised how defensive people are about Annandale. The original question was - when was Annandale going to take off - this is a discussion of what dragging it down and which direction it's headed. The fact that Annandale is getting less desirable has to be caused by something - schools and gangs are just a couple of causes - FACT.

This. And the schools are 100% of the reason why we moved away from Annandale.

So no, Annandale will not take off anytime soon because no young families want to buy into the school district. this is just a fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised how defensive people are about Annandale. The original question was - when was Annandale going to take off - this is a discussion of what dragging it down and which direction it's headed. The fact that Annandale is getting less desirable has to be caused by something - schools and gangs are just a couple of causes - FACT.

This. And the schools are 100% of the reason why we moved away from Annandale.

So no, Annandale will not take off anytime soon because no young families want to buy into the school district. this is just a fact.

+1
We didn't look anywhere there when we house hunted - just skipped straight over it to Fairfax and Burke/WS given the schools.

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure what “take off” means exactly. A high percentage increase in home value or demand for the location? I think it’ll appreciate overall like the rest of nova but it’s towards the bottom of the list compared to surrounding areas with similar proximity to DC. There’s no reason that would change soon.